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Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 17 January 1841
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Charles Lamb I
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Thomas Campbell I
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“Okeover, Jan. 17, 1841,

“Dear Patmore,— * * * I am particularly delighted with the discovery you
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have made (which I own I never made myself) of the double constancy in the work, that of Bertha as well of De Clifford. It gives a very increased value to the story, though, as I say, it was not a part of my professed object. In this you make me feel like the Irishman, who, prosecuting another for an assault, was so impressed with the eloquence of his counsel (Curran) in describing it, that he advanced into the middle of the court and addressed the jury: ‘Indade, now, it’s all true, every word of it; but I did not know I had been half so ill-used till this jintleman tould me.’ I, of course, meant to represent De C. as always in high favour with Bertha, without, perhaps, her knowing how much; but confess it was not my object to demonstrate her constancy as well as his.

“You please me much by what you say of the quarrel with Albany. I myself felt very heroic in writing it. * * *

“R. P. W.

“P.S.—What is the ‘Betrothed,’ advertised by Bentley? Was not that the title of the novel you praised so much, and which I have been looking for ever since? But that was
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to be published by Colburn. What is the mystery of its postponement? C. told me it has long been printed, though not brought out.”